…In this movie we will continue our…conversation about selectively sharpening our photographs by creating…a duplicate layer, and then by adding a…layer mask and hand painting onto that mask.…Yet, in this movie what I want to do is show you…what we've already seen but build upon that by adding in just a…few advanced shortcut techniques, which you might want to consider using in…your workflow to help you speed up the way that you selectively sharpen…your photographs.…The reason why I want to include these is because these are techniques…that I use on almost every image that I work on in Photoshop.…

Well, here it goes.…Often, like with a photograph like this, I'll…decide on an area that I want to sharpen.…In this image, it's all about sharpening the eye and maybe a…little bit of the lips as well, and some of the hair.…You know, there's a shallow depth of field here.…I'm not interested in sharpening the background.…So…I want to quickly and easily sharpen these areas.…Also, as a side note, we'll talk about working…

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2/3/2014

Since the beginning of the photographic art form, photographers have been searching for clearer and sharper images. Now, you don't have to settle for what was captured in camera; you can perfect your photos in post-production. In this course, Chris Orwig tackles sharpening in three programs: Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom, and Photoshop. They all have their strengths, so he shows you how to get the best results from specific sharpening challenges with each one. Chris shows you how to reduce noise and sharpen with sliders and make selective adjustments to certain areas of raw images. In Photoshop, he uses powerful filters like Unsharp Mask and Smart Sharpen to sharpen larger areas of pictures, and masking to paint in sharpening. Last, he shares two advanced techniques, one using high pass sharpening and another that limits sharpening to the edges of your images.